Car-coupling.



0.1a. SGHROYER.

GAR COUPLING. APPLIOATION IILED AUG. 8. 1907.

Patented June 29, 1909.

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CHARLES A. SCHROYER, OF OAK PARK, lLLlNOlS.

CAR-COUPLING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 29, 1909.

Application filed. August 8, 1907. Serial No. 387,681.

. To all whom it may concern:

useful Improvements in Cal-Couplers, of

Beit known that I, Cimunns A. Scnuornn, a citizenof the United States, residing at Oak Park, in the county of Cook and'State of Illinois, have invented certain new and which the following is a specification.

My Invention relates to m'iprovenients 1n car; couplers, and the object is to provide an improved car coupling and uncoupling device.

It is also my object to make a device of this class which whenmountcd on a freight car shall permit coupling of a passenger car without any disadvantage.

Further objects and advantages will be apparent from the following specification and claims.

7 In the accompanying drawingsFigure 1 is a plan view. Fig. 2 is an elevation of n yunpouplin device. Fig. 3 is a detail view of a'sec ion on the line 3 of Fig. 2, looking in the direction ofithe arrow. Fi l is a perspective view of a detail;

Prop-c ting from theeud of the car 6, in the usual manner, is a draw-bar 7 which terminates in the coupling member 8. These parts and the locking pin 9 form no part of my present'invention and are therefore not shown in detail. The locking pin 9 is surmounted by an eye l and a horizontal rod 11 projects through the eye being definitely held therein by the shoulder 12 and the opposite nut 13. The said rod 11 at, its other end extends through a. sleeve l l, which is supported by a bracket 15 from the end of the car 6. The inner edges of the sleeve 14 are beveled at 16 and 17, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, so as to permit the draw-bar end of the rod 11 to swing forward horizontally.

A shaft 18 is mounted in a bearing 19 in the bracket. 15 and has its -end 2O bent horizontally so as to extend under the rod 11. The shaft. 18 is given further support by a bracket 21 carrying .the bearing 22, and its end 23 is bent vertically down, as shown in Fig. 2, to form an o crating handle. Alon side this handle the iiracket 21 has a bevele oblique guiding surface 24.

The drawings show the device with the parts in the positions which they would occupy if the coupling 8 were holding the corresponding member offlanother car. If the operator desires to un'couple the car he turns the handle 23 away from the car and up, thus causing the crank to lift the rod 11, and with it the locking pin 9. This releases the knuckle of the coupling member, in a manner well-known to those familiar with this art. If the operator wishes the locking pin 9 to be held up he piishes on the handle 23, so as to displace the shaft 18 longit udinally, and the oblique guide 24 holds the handle 23' in a position corresponding to the raised position of the locking pin 9.

If now the car illustrated is lobe coupled to another car the impact will push the draw-bar 7 in toward the car 6. At this time the crank 20 will extend at anincline up and away from the bearing 19 and the displacement of the draw-bar 7, just referred to, will push the rod 11 horizontally toward the cart out of contact with the crank 20. The shaft 18 with its crank 20 and handle 23 will then be freed from any binding action, and will drop back into the position shown ,in the drawings, thus permitting the locking-pin Ste-hold the cars coupled. Thus it will be seen that my device operates automatically. It is also to be noted that it applie'sjequally well to couplers equipped with or without a lock-set for the locking pin" 9. As is well-known, those couplers which have a lock-set are so arranged that if when the locking pin 9 is raised, it is at the same time inclined so that its upper end leans toward the car, then its lower end will catch so as to hold it up in this position. I desire to call attention to the fact that when my uncoupling device is operated in the manner described to unopuple a car, the arm 20 not only tends to raise the rod 11 but also to throw it back toward the car, thus giving the locking pin 9 the backward inclination referred to. Hence if a coupler has a lock-set. the application of my u'ncoupling device thereto will operate its lock-.

in the desired manner.

If the draw-bar 7 should for any'reasou he pulled out away from the car 6, the bevel ing of the sleeve 14 at 16' and 17 will permit' 'ioo culty is experlenced 'in the said'rod -,past said fulcrum,

said shaft bein bent to engage the rod andv coupling up a freight car and a passenger. 1 car. The platform of the passenger car projecting over the ency to cut or wear away-the chain, just referred to, or to bend or jam thecrank to i which it is attached. It will be noted that in my device there are no parts which use locking pin 9 has a tend more than a few inchesabove the coupling member 8,and thus the platform of a passenger car-coming close to thefre ght car would clear the parts referred to.- a

The rod 11 is so related toits end connec tions that whatever longitudinal displacement may ccur,'will be entirely at the end' oppositethe locking pin. In other words,

this rod-'is attached to the. locking pin in, such a way as, to prevent relative lOng'ltudinal displacement, but freedomof such I movementris secured at the other end, bythe sleeve connection that has been described. Iclaim: 1. An uncoupling dev ce for car couplers comprising a transverse horizontal .rod attached at one end to theupper end of the locking pini the other end of said rod having a fulcrunipn the car framework, a shaft extending substantially the same direction as one end of the, opposite end thereof being bent to serve as a handle, and journals in which said shaft is mounted so as to permit rotation about its axis 2; An uncoupling device'for carcouplers comprising a transverse horizontal rod attached atone end to the locking pin, the

other of said rod having a fulcrum on the car-framework, a shaft extending past 1 said fulcrum one end of said shaft being bent to extend under the rod and the opposite end thereof being'bent toserve as a handle, said ournals also permitting longitudinal dis placement of the shaft therein, and a guide end to the upper end ofthe locking pin, and A a fixedsleeve loosely embracing the other end of the rod.

4:- An uncoupling device for car couplers comprising a rod attached at one end to the locking pin, a sleeve surrounding the other end,- the sleeve having its diagonally opposite inner edges beveled so as to permit with drawalof the rod therefrom when the drawbar is pulled out from the car.

upper end of a vertically displaceable looking. pin, the other end passing through a sleeve, said sleeve being cut away so as to permit the opposite end of the rod to swing horizontally away from the car. I

CHARLES A. SCHROYER. Witnesses ANNIE C. COUBTENAY, EDYTHE M. ANDERSON.

0. An uncoupling device for car couplers comprising a rod. attached atone end to the 

